An RCMP officer has been arrested after allegedly using the federal police force’s databanks to search for the owner of a license plate, and passed the information on to non-officers.

Kevin Beauvais-Benoit, 33, from St-Rémi was posted in Saskatchewan when the crime was said to have occurred. Between 2014 and 2015, Beauvais-Benoit accessed the national databank without authorization to find the identity of a license plate owner.

The RCMP claims that he then passed this information to two individuals he knew: Benoit Robert, 32, of St-Michel-de-Napierville, and Dominic Boyer, 34, of St-Rémi. Robert and Boyer then allegedly used this information to go to the place of residence of the person Beauvais-Benoit had identified, and intimidated that person.

“As police officers, we all have access to those databanks, but we cannot use it for ourselves,” said RCMP Constable Erique Gasse. “We can use them any time when we are doing an investigation, when we have a reason to do it… but if I wanted to check a plate number for a friend of mine, this is absolutely not (allowed).”

Beauvais-Benoit has been charged with criminal harassment, breach of trust, unauthorized use of a Canadian Police Information Centre computer terminal and data and releasing information to an unauthorized third party.

Beauvais-Benoit has been with the force for less than two years. He was transferred back to Quebec in 2016, and is currently suspended without pay. All three men will appear in court in September.

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